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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Another day and another actor who says he is retiring from acting. When is the last time you actually saw an actor retire from acting who had any success at it? Clint Eastwood? Maybe in the past couple of years but he still loved to get in front of the camera. You miss it. You crave it. Chris Evans says he wants to be a director and retire from acting. He does say that he will continue to act in Marvel movies and will act in movies he is also directing but nothing else. Uh huh. Well, that is a pretty big list right there of movies he is willing to act in. So, when he says he is retiring from acting he really doesn't mean it. All actors want to direct. Look at any television show that has been on the air longer than four years and I bet there are actors from the show listed in the credits as a director. The thing is directing is a lot of hard work and you don't get the attention you get like you do when you are in front of the camera.

Chris is just the latest in a line of actors to say they are going to retire. They don't mean it. They think they mean it and think they are moving on because they got a taste of directing. When he has trouble getting a studio to give him a nice fat paycheck for directing some indie and someone comes along with an offer to star in a movie for $10M he will probably say something like the part called to him and it was too good to pass up. I don't understand why everyone has to say they are retiring. I guess it is for the headlines, but it never comes true. All his announcement has done is give some other actor beneath him on a studio wish listget a shot and then Chris is going to wonder how come he went from Captain America to Captain Sawyer in some Lifetime television movie co-starring Tori Spelling in a few years.

Some of you people need to be more respectful of actors. Saying the lines and not bumping into the furniture isn't the easiest thing in the world, you know. And when an actor of Chris Evan's stature has something to say, about anything, let alone his own career aspirations, the rest of you need to just shut your big ignorant pie holes and listen.

All of the real movie stars are gone anyway. We've been left with spoiled brats and idiots suffering from "exhaustion".I'm too busy being a single mom with 2 jobs to worry about his foolishness. Trust me, there's a million hungry actors out there waiting to fill his shoes. Quit your yipping and just go.

When is the last time you actually saw an actor retire from acting who had any success at it?

Let's see...Ron Howard, Rob Reiner, Penny Marshall...I'm sure there are others, but these are the first to come to mind.

Time will tell how well Chris will do as a director, but why not give him the benefit of the doubt at the beginning? I don't recall hearing that he's done anything worthy of everyone getting the knives out before he even gets started, so why don't we just see how things work out? (As for his Marvel contract, apparently the Thor: The Dark World cameo isn't being counted, FWIW, so counting the Avengers sequel, he's got 3 more movies to go.)

I think Chris will still act but intends to fulfill his commitments to Marvel (lots of money, fun franchise, and gives him a great profile boost and character-associated rep as a nice guy) and then start directing. He can rest on his laurels for a while having the big push of press for The Avengers to get his movies greenlit. It was a smart move. If the directing doesn't work out, he can use his role in several zillion-dollar blockbusters to sell himself as a worthy investment if he returns to acting.

Really? For Captain America? He's the star of his own blockbuster movie franchise, and one of the stars in a related franchise that happens to be one of the biggest around (Avengers), AND was one of the stars of the Fantastic Four movies. He also has a pretty long list of not-unknown movie credits, if Marvel is not your thing. This is a celeb gossip blog, are you sure you're in the right place?!

I mean, I can understand this comment on all those reality nobodycareswhoyouare idiots, but this is a bonefide movie star. Not just an actor. A movie star.

I'm not saying that makes him special in the grand scheme of life, but this is a blog for those kinds of things...

Move aside Chris, The glorious Sebastian Stan will take your place as Captain America and I welcome this takeover! Between Sebastian, Fassbender, McEvoy and Taylor-Johnson, there's a whole lotta reasons to watch almost every Marvel film coming up in the next decade!

In his defense, Chris Evans has publicly spoken about having anxiety issues, and you can tell how uncomfortable he is with media attention. He's signed on for several more Cap movies, so of course he's going to continue doing those, and I think he realizes that a lot of people depend on him to do so, but he might be more comfortable behind the camera.

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